Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 15:28:46 -0700 From: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glabel nor tunefs save my labels Message-ID: <87k4r8bvq9.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> In-Reply-To: <20100512174123.GA15087@slackbox.erewhon.net> (Roland Smith's message of "Wed\, 12 May 2010 19\:41\:23 %2B0200") References: <20100510202618.GA1748@Melon.malikania.fr> <hsa1v9$qht$1@dough.gmane.org> <AANLkTikyZoDXcE2DNrnDq8PVq2jV_Olzcrwu3leUTE9J@mail.gmail.com> <20100511174006.GA7980@slackbox.erewhon.net> <AANLkTimjcmPbgLoqqL-bHTxuBalXtqKcxITBAvdLdYb7@mail.gmail.com> <20100511181202.GA20091@slackbox.erewhon.net> <87pr11axj7.fsf@cjlinux.localnet> <20100512174123.GA15087@slackbox.erewhon.net>
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Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:35:08AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: >> Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes: >>=20 >> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:46:57PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: >> >> 2010/5/11 Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>: >> >> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 07:08:40PM +0200, David DEMELIER wrote: >> >> >> Thanks for all your answers. >> >> >> >> >> >> markand@Melon ~ $ sudo tunefs -p /dev/ad0s1f >> >> > <snip> >> >> >> tunefs: volume label: (-L) =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 u= sr >> >> >> >> >> >> It's weird, as you can see the label is set but nothing in /dev/la= bel, >> >> >> /dev/ufs, /dev/vol ! >> >> > >> >>=20 >> >> Aaah ! So I understand everything now ! Is this written somewhere ? >> > >> > See =C2=A719.6 (Labeling Disk Devices) in the FreeBSD Handbook. Howeve= r, it is not mentioned >> > there that labels are removed when the partition is mounted. Maybe that >> > behavior is recent? >>=20 >> I am not the original poster, but I tried again and I now am mostly >> using labels and the labels are still showing in /dev/ufs/. I didn't >> have labels showing in /dev/ufs, but I changed fstab to what they >> should be and rebooted. The system came up using the labels and they >> are showing in /dev/ufs/ and using 'glabel status'. > > When I did my testing, I did not reboot the system. Maybe that is > the difference? It might be, but I had rebooted more than once previously. This time I mounted them using the labels, so maybe *that* is the difference. I have another system running in VirtualBox from Linux (this one is not a virtual machine) and I don't remember having any similar problems with labels on it. It doesn't make sense to me so I really don't know. >> I say mostly because the /usr partition isn't recognized for some >> reason, even though dumpfs and tunefs show the label. That label is >> also not shown in /dev/ufs or using 'glabel status'. That made the >> reboot a little tricky since I had to manually mount /usr in order to >> get an editor to edit fstab to continue the boot. > > That is odd indeed. Maybe a misspelling in the label? Anything in dmesg or > /var/log/messages. I have checked many times and can't find anything different about that FS compared with the others. It isn't a misspelling because there isn't anything in /dev/ufs except the other 4 labels that I am already using. There is nothing in the logs except the boot error in dmesg when it couldn't find /usr to mount it. The system works so I am not really worried about it. It just irritates me when I can't get things to work as I think they should. --=20 Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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